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6.1.16 Week: 22 \ Day: 153
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 78° \ L 37°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
19mph Visibility: 8 mi
[controlled burns]
Record High: 88°[1977]
Record Low: 24°[1923]
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Quote of the Day
There is much pleasure
to be gained from useless knowledge. ~Bertrand Russell
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Observances Today
Buddha
Birthday
Global
Day of Parents Link
Heimlich Maneuver Day
National Go Barefoot Day
Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim - Israel)
National Go Barefoot Day
National Go Barefoot Day
National Olive Day Link
National Running Day Link
National Tailors Day
Oscar The Grouch Day Link
Say Something Nice Day Link
Solar Eclipse
Stand
For Children Day Link
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Anniversary
– CNN-1980
Anniversary - Heimlich Maneuver-1975
Admission Day (Kentucky-1792-15th)
Admission Day (Tennessee-1796-16th)
Independence Day (Samoa-1962-from NZ)
International Children's Day (China)
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Observances This Week
○ 1-5
Great
American Brass Band Week
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1638 1st earthquake
recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1657 1st Quakers arrives
in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 Mary Dyer is hanged
for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1789 1st US congressional
act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1808 1st US land-grant university
founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1813 Capt John Lawrence
utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1843 Sojourner
Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is
signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
After the "long walk" to the Bosque Redondo Reservation in New
Mexico, the NAVAJOs suffered from the poor conditions on the
reservation, and from homesickness for their old lands. After numerous visits
from Washington representatives, General Sherman visited the NAVAJO.
They again asked to go back to their old lands. They promised the keep the
peace and the old treaties. Sherman talked with them, and he listened to them.
With a new treaty in hand, Sherman says he will let them go, if they sign, and
obey, the new treaty. The NAVAJOs agree, even though they will lose
some of their land as a part of the new agreement. On this date, Barboncito,
Armijo, Delgadito, Herrero Grande, Manuelito, and others sign the new treaty.
1877 US troops authorized
to pursue bandits into Mexico
1880 1st pay telephone
installed
1888 California gets its
1st seismograph
1905 Lewis & Clark
Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1921 Race riot in Tulsa
Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1927 Peace Bridge between
US & Canada opens
1934 A legal definition of "Indian" is made today.
1938 Protective baseball
helmets 1st worn by batters
1947 Photosensitive glass
developed
1949 1st magazine on
microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1961 FM multiplex stereo
broadcasting 1st heard
1968 Simon &
Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1971 Ed Sullivan's final
TV show on CBS
1978 The first
international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 Los Angeles passes its
first homosexual rights bill
1993 Brooklyn NY begins
recycling
1996 Woody
Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically
planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish
between industrial hemp and marijuana
2008 A fire at the
backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such
as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King
Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
4000 BC Approximate
domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central
Ukraine (hypothesis only)
1215 Beijing,
under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the
Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing
1495 First
written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar
John Cor is the distiller
1533 Anne
Boleyn crowned queen of England
1845 Homing
pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1958 The Clean Air Act comes
into force in Ireland
1966 George
Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1998 - The Irish and British
Governments search for common ground on the parades crisis, amid growing
indications that the summer marching season will push the North to the brink of
open sectarian warfare
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great
news on the blood drawing front. I am only 1.2% above the cutoff. That means
that end of these draws is getting near.
We
are suffering from some controlled lightning strike burns and a couple of
prescribed burns within 10 miles of the city. Not a really big deal, but don’t
enjoy the smell of the smoke.
While
I have been retired for almost 10 years, I still get my days mixed up when
there is a Monday holiday. Weird. Every day is Saturday for me, so why would a
holiday mess up my internal calendar?
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Difficulty:
2.75
Five Spoonerisms
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
A
spoonerism is a pair of words that can have the initial sounds switched to form
new words. For example, "churning bear" is a spoonerism for
"burning chair" (note that the pairs do not have to be spelled the
same - only sound the same). From the definitions below, can you figure out the
spoonerism pairs?
1. Thumper's cellphone...mis-named nerve.
2. Where to buy a mallard...jammed portal.
3. Grizzly relative...two pin-lovers.
4. Sad iguana...Merlin slam-dunking.
5. Wasp accelerates...Half a six-pack.
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…Harper’s Index…
27-Percentage of likely
Republican primary voters who support shutting down US mosques.
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
earthpix Gorgeous colors in Colmar,
France | Photo by @ilhan1077
Check out our Facebook for more awesome travel photography. Link is in the bio@earthpix.
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2 jokes for the day
I
was on the subway, sitting on a newspaper when a guy comes over and asks,
"Are you reading that?"
I didn’t know what to say. So I said, "Yes."
I then stood up, turned the page, and sat down again.
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In a software design meeting, we were
using typical technical jargon to discuss a data exchange interface with a
vendor.
One co-worker said the programming we had ordered was delayed because the
vendor was suffering from a "severe non-linear waterfowl issue."
Curious, the team leader raised his eyebrows and asked, "What exactly is
that?"
The programmer replied, "They don't have all their ducks in a row."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
most popular holidays for barbecuing are, in order, July 4th (71 percent),
Memorial Day (57 percent), and Labor Day (55 percent).
Technically, to barbecue means to slow-cook meat at a low temperature for a
long time over wood or charcoal. What most people do in their back yards is
more commonly referred to as grilling.
Charcoal briquettes aren't actual charcoal, but a combination of charcoal and
other ingredients molded into easy-to-light lumps. Kingsford Charcoal, for
example, by far the most popular brand in the US, is made up of bits of
charcoal, coal, starch (as a binder), sawdust, and sodium nitrate (to make it
burn better).
There is no definitive history about how the word "barbecue"
originated - or why it's sometimes used as a noun, verb, or adjective. Some say
the Spaniards get the credit for the word, derived from their
"barbacoa" which is an American-Indian word for the framework of
green wood on which foods were placed for cooking over hot coals. Others think
the French were responsible, offering the explanation that when the Caribbean
pirates arrived on our Southern shores, they cooked animals on a spit-like
devise that ran from "whiskers to tail" or "de barbe a'
queue."
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[88] John
Masefield,
British writer and poet (Salt-Water
Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), born in Ledbury, Herefordshire (d. 1967)
[86] Andy Griffith,
Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith
Show, Matlock), (d. 2012)
[82] Edmund
Ignatius Rice,
Irish founder of the Christian
Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
82- Pat Boone,
Florida, singer/actor (April Love,
Cross & Switchblade)
79- Morgan Freeman,
Academy award winning actor
(Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory), born in Memphis, Tennessee
[76] Brigham Young,
American religious leader (Mormon
church), born in Whitingham, Vermont (d. 1877)
[73] Carl
Bechstein,
German piano inventor
63- Diana Canova,
West Palm Beach Fla, actress
(Corrine-Soap)
60- Lisa Hartman
Black,
singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots
Landing), born in Houston, Texas
43- Heidi Klum,
German supermodel, born in Bergisch
Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
[36] Marilyn Monroe [Norma
Jean Mortenson],
American actress (Some Like It
Hot), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1962)
35- Amy Schumer,
American comedian, writer ad
producer (Inside Amy Schumer), born in New York
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Historical Obits Today
@92-1952 John Dewey,
US philosopher (Common Faith)
@88-2014 Ann B. Davis,
American actress, [Alice-Brady Bunch]
@87-1968 Helen Keller,
blind & deaf/author (Let us
Have Faith)
@81-2001 Hank Ketcham,
American cartoonist (Dennis the
Menace)
@771868 James Buchanan,
15th US president (1857-61), repertory
failure
@71-2008 Yves Saint Laurent,
French fashion designer, brain
cancer
@67-1985 Richard Greene,
actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood-TV),
heart attack
@67-1965 Curly Lambeau,
First coach of the Green Bay
Packers, heart attack
@67-1571 John Story,
English Catholic martyr, executed
at Tyburn by being hung, drawn and quartered
@40-1996 Ray Combs,
TV host (Family Feud), suicide
@25-1975 Steve Prefontaine,
5K (Olympics-4-1972), car crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Bunny phone...funny bone.
2. Duck store...stuck door.
3. Polar bear...bowler pair.
4. Weeping lizard...leaping wizard.
5. Bee throttles...three bottles.
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Disclaimer:
All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’
info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other
source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the
information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult
to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted
[1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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